Please spread this around. Tweet it, Post it to Facebook, your blog, pinterest. Wherever you like. Obama will negotiate with terrorist Iran, but won’t negotiate with the duly elected representatives of the people. He says “I won”. But I would remind him that Republicans ALSO won. In fact, after Democrats passed Obamacare, Americans threw them out of office, and elected Republicans in the biggest electoral landslide in 75 years! [Click to enlarge.]

The federal government’s fiscal year ends in October, so one would assume that when the 2010 FY ended in October 2010, the FY 2011 budget would be ready to go. The Democrat-controlled Congress, for the first time since 1974, refused to pass a budget and the government has been running on continuing resolutions ever since. With complete control of Congress until January of this year, they could have passed anything they want.

The president, who has to sign each of those continuing resolutions, has been continually passive, uninterested, or uninvolved in getting a real budget passed. Many have been puzzled by the president’s refusal to lead. Shouldn’t the president lead when members of his own party refuse to come to the table? His message has been that he shouldn’t have to shepherd this process through Congress — he shouldn’t have to lead.

It has been more than 40 days since the House passed a budget for 2011, cutting spending by $61 billion. The president stirred. He invited leadership of both houses to the White House for a conference. The result? A press conference.

My guess is that the president wants to avoid all the arguments and discussion, and emerge only at the penultimate moment when he can put his “gift” of community organizing speech to work, rousing public opinion and demonizing the other side. “A fiery President Obama insisted Tuesday that he and Congressional leaders couldn’t reach a deal to avert a government shutdown. I want a meeting again tomorrow here at the White House.”… “And if that doesn’t work we’ll invite them again the day after that . And I will have my entire team available to work through the details of getting a deal done.”

Obama is so anxious to avoid a shutdown, that he’s heading out to make speeches in the Philadelphia area on energy and attend a gala in New York with black political activists. He may not be hailed for his leadership, but you can’t blame him—it’s Congress’s fault.

Democrats’ strategy is clearly go for a shutdown and then to blame the Republicans. Nancy Pelosi’s out there blathering about how the American people don’t want 6 million old people to go without meals. Debbie-Wasserman-Schultz, blonde harridan, selected by Obama as new head for the DNC, is suggesting that seniors will die. (She needs to watch that rhetoric, it’s ObamaCare that rations care for the elderly, and has already diverted $500 billion from Medicare for other purposes).

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says it is impossible to pass anything that cuts funds from NPR or Planned Parenthood. That’s just dumb. Both organizations are popular with some segments of the population, and both are perfectly capable of standing on their own without government subsidy. If you’re out on the ocean and your rowboat springs a leak, first you have to plug the hole. then you can start bailing. But you’d better bail with something larger than a teaspoon.

Democrats are predictable. They are sure that Americans in general are stupid, and senior citizens are dumber yet, and particularly easy to scare, and Democrats plan to scare them into voting the right way. They deny the debt, pretend that the deficits aren’t really a problem, and want to just kick the can on down the road to be solved — someday.